Dieting

“Rethinking Weight,” by Amanda Spake was featured as a cover story in the February 2004 edition of U.S. News and World Report. The article brings a critical debate among obesity researchers into question: whether or not obesity should be classified as a disease. This dispute is significant to the future of America, and many Americans themselves. The positions of the government and insurance companies on the classification of obesity as a disease will determine the assistance granted to obese and…

training programs to lose fat. Use these 5 routines to fire up your fat loss! You live a fit lifestyle year-round but sometimes we realize the occasional junk food begins to show its effects. Being the educated fitness diva, you know it's time to start dieting and cater your workout to achieve your goal. But for some reason when we women decide it's time to lose fat, the first thing we tend to do is jump onto cardio, and weight training is not prioritized. Whether it's because the calorie…

Diets have been around for a long time, although some were never as effective as others. The US has gradually increased their obesity rate, so many are trying to find the best options for themselves. For some, weight loss is the ultimate goal. And for others, the most important factor is their universal health. Of course, the easiest way in general to have the best health and to lose weight is putting nutritious foods into your body and making sure to exercise. Even though many diets don’t have…

mental state, because it feeds into their issues. Tania Heller a medical director of the Washington Center for Eating Disorders and Adolescent Obesity in Bethesda, MA tells of how they have seen an increase in adolescent girls and women using extreme dieting in hopes of achieving a thigh gap (Mascarelli). For many women the thigh gap would be nearly impossible to get, because of the way their hips are set. “Experts say social media are giving such terms as thigh gap and “orthorexia” - a fixation…

Overweight and Overjoyed Mary Ray Worley in her article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” discusses feeling as if she were in a dazzling new world where people of a larger body type were not “fat shamed” and heckled by both the real world and their inner selves. Worley experiences this epiphany at the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) Conference in San Diego of August 2000. She cites studies that typically go unacknowledged when discussing the health effects of…

What is the ketogenic diet? Simply put, the ketogenic diet is any diet that "forces" the body into a state of ketosis, and in which the energy consumed fats instead of carbohydrates. Proper ketogenic diet requires the consumption of large quantities of fat, protein and a sufficient amount of very small quantities of carbohydrates. Our bodies are used to convert carbohydrates into glucose, which the body uses for energy. When sufficient restricting carbohydrate intake enter into a state of…

experience you have so i've put a bit of a synopsis below. however there is always more room to learn, one of the best bodybuilders in the world when asked for advice on training said "The body is important but the mind is more important"! In terms of dieting I always tell the woman I train to find out there BMR (Basic Metabolic Rate). This is how many colories you burn within 24hrs without getting out of bed. This is your calorie limit, you do not go past it. Plus becuase your training more…

Additional behaviors discussed included taking vitamins, eating breakfast, dieting, and eating less fast food. Whereas many discussed specific behaviors to describe healthy eating, some participants used more global terms such. Of interest, rarely was following the Food Guide Pyramid included in a description of healthy eating. The…

The Negative Effects of Barbie Dolls on Body Image: “As a child most girls played with Barbie dolls and if they had not, their views of what is considered beautiful and acceptable for women would be different, as well as how they felt about body image” (Ive, Dittmar, Halliwell 283). Childhood is the period of time where girls start to build their basic belief system that they will carry into their adulthood. Most young girls, especially in the United States, are given toys that portray the…

Are overweight individuals discriminated against in past and modern society? According to historian Hillel Schwartz overweight people have and are continuously being discriminated against in our society and he uses numerous examples to back up his belief of overweight discrimination. For instance, Schwartz mentions the use of stickers like, “No Fat Chicks,” or the use of posters such as, “It’s in to be thin. It’s out to be stout,” (Schwartz 179). He also points his finger at professionals like…